Idea of a new typog­ra­phy term – kem­ing. noun. The result of improper kerning :-)

22nd February, 2008 Comments Off

I am really excited about recent Har­vard Uni­ver­sity ini­tia­tive:

Har­vard University’s Fac­ulty of Arts and Sci­ences adopted a pol­icy this evening that requires fac­ulty mem­bers to allow the uni­ver­sity to make their schol­arly arti­cles avail­able free online.

Although the out­come of this vote would apply only to Harvard’s arts and sci­ences fac­ulty, the impact, given the university’s pres­tige, could be sig­nif­i­cant for the open-access move­ment, which seeks to make sci­en­tific and schol­arly research avail­able to as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble at no cost. This is a big step for­ward push­ing pub­lish­ing inex­orably towards the “Open Access” model. As well as nice addi­tion to NIH Public-Access Pol­icy requirements.

The com­pre­hen­sive list of open access jour­nals can be accessed at doaj.org.

19th February, 2008 View Comments

Dar­win Day is an inter­na­tional cel­e­bra­tion of Darwin’s achieve­ments in sci­ence held on Feb­ru­ary 12^th, the day that Charles Dar­win was born in 1809. The Dar­win Day Cel­e­bra­tion started with one event in 1995 and last year there were more than 850 Dar­win Day events world-wide. Dar­win Day fes­tiv­i­ties include debates, lec­tures, essay con­tests, film fes­ti­vals and you can even have an “Evo­lu­tion Ban­quet” with “Pri­mor­dial Soup” fol­lowed by a “Dar­win Fish Fry.” Here we are mostly writ­ing arti­cles but if you have a fish fry, be sure to let us know and we’ll link to it.
[via sci­en­tificblog­ging]

Today every­one can read Darwin’s books for free: The Ori­gin of Species by Means of Nat­ural Selec­tion (1889) and The Ori­gin of Species (1909). You can even grab a copy in PDF. Power of Google books and Stan­ford Lirary ;-)

11th February, 2008 View Comments